Energy News

Reversing the Environmental Protection Agency's rules to combat emissions that cross state lines would be a blow to Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., which spent $1.3 billion since 2007 to clean up two coal-fired New Jersey power plants to meet national air-quality standards set into law two decades ago.

CMS Energy has been upfront and transparent about its plans to be more environmentally responsible, spokesman Jeff Holyfield said Friday.

Sen. Bob Casey is calling for a legislative hearing to see how energy prices would be affected by the possible closure of 3 Philadelphia-area oil refineries.

Columbiana County Recorder Craig Brown has begun his own discussions with Chesapeake Energy about extending office hours to help the company process the record number of oil and gas leases needing recorded.

Chester's City Controller, Edith Blackwell, was shot, along with another victim, while pumping gas at a Sunoco station in her city on Friday afternoon.

Utility regulators say the closings of six coal-burning power plants could end up bringing higher electricity rates to much of northern Ohio.

An ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at the San Onofre nuclear plant in November was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it, federal regulators said Friday.

An ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at the San Onofre nuclear plant in November was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it, federal regulators said Friday.

First Solar is warning that a construction delay threatens to undo its sale of a large solar project planned for Los Angeles County to power producer Exelon Corp.

AARP Kansas says it is opposed to a proposed settlement before regulators that would allow the state's largest electric company to increase its rates by $50 million.

The state Board of Public Utilities on Thursday approved the results of the state's annual electricity auction.

A natural gas distributor plans to run a pipeline through a state nature preserve and high-priced neighborhoods on Nashville's south side.

Southern California Edison has agreed to widen Live Oak Avenue sidewalks in areas where new power poles are blocking access to those with disabilities, officials said.

The nation's first new nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors at a site in eastern Georgia.

The price of natural gas jumped Thursday after a major producer said it is aggressively cutting production.

The State Department's internal watchdog has cleared the agency of any impropriety in its review of a permit for a controversial pipeline that that would carry Canadian oil across the continental United States.

An energy company has announced a new system for treating wastewater from gas wells in eastern Ohio, where a natural gas boom is underway.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to approve licenses to build two new nuclear reactors Thursday, the first approvals in over 30 years.

Emmy Award-winning Yankees TV host Bob Lorenz was arrested on drunk driving charges early Wednesday morning after police say he was found slumped over the wheel of a vehicle stopped at a Westport intersection.

Detectives need help to identify and find a man who posed as a utility worker and distracted a 75-year-old woman while her home was being burglarized.